Scot McKnight Quotes

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Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Scot McKnight
Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

Scot McKnight
God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone.

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One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

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We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

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Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

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We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

Scot McKnight
What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Scot McKnight
Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Scot McKnight
The Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

Scot McKnight